Speeches

Real Birds in Digital Cages: The Chickens Come Home to Roost So who do you think you are? Whatever you reply, Richard Thieme will go zen on you and say, no, not that. Because identity is by social agreement and social agreement is manufactured, managed, and manipulated on the internet these days. We should all […]

My keynote for the unique security conference Corn Con in Davenport Iowa on September 17 2016. Home Biohacking: A Voyage on the High Seas without GPS or Sextant or Stars” Distinguishing the transhumanist hype from the sane science is not always easy. Then add the antics of real hackers to the mix – adventuresome sometimes […]

Friends and colleagues: I will speak for the 21st straight year at Def Con 24 in Las Vegas in August. My topic is below, and I want to nuance things correctly so I am inviting your input. If this is “orthogonal” to your interests, the delete key is to the right. I will focus on […]

This speech was given at Def Con 22 in Las Vegas in August 2014, the 19th year I spoke at Def Con. A graphic represntations of speakers at Def Con over the year showed that I had spoken there more than anyone else, which means the company of a LOT of greater people. Video […]

University of Wisconsin – Madison Milwaukee Stout Eau Claire Parkside Waukesha Washington County University Research Park Wisconsin Medical College Marquette University Alverno College Cardinal Stritch University Mount Mary College National-Louis University Wisconsin Lutheran College Purdue University – CERIAS Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the University of Texas – Austin, Texas […]

Closing Keynote for Hack in the Box, Kuala Lumpur 2011 Calling a person a “conspiracy theorist” is an easy way to dismiss what used to be called “an investigative journalist” as if they are fringe, wacko, loopy or insane. But the deeper we go into the sources of “frame management” by oligarchic networks, meta-national-structures of political and economic power, […]

Some speakers give the same speech to every audience. Thieme doesn’t. He has been privileged to grow each year with the evolution of the Def Con and Black Hat computer security conferences. Each Thieme speech is intended for a specific context and event. Audio and video streams of Def Con and Black Hat speeches can […]

Mind Games

Mind Games is a unique collection of 19 stories of brave new worlds and alternate realities - stories of computer hackers, deception and intelligence, puzzling anomalies, spirituality and mysteries of consciousness, the paranormal, UFOs, alien life forms - in short, everyday life in the 21st century. All have been previously published in
literary, slipstream, and science fiction magazines and anthologies but have not been available in a single collection - until now.

Almost 5 years in the making on top of countless hours in archives, private libraries, etc., we believe this is the gold standard in historical research into the phenomena and how the military and intelligence communities responded from World War II to the present, using their own words and communications. Nearly one thousand sources are cited in almost 600 pages.

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Entering Sacred Digital Space

"Entering Sacred Digital Space: Seeking to Distinguish the Dreamer and the Dream"
was published in New Paradigms for Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium -Available on Amazon.com

“Silent Emergent, Doubly Dark” in the anthology: Subtle Edens

A splendid slipstream anthology (Elastic Press: London, 2008) includes Thieme’s breakthrough story, which received this review:

“Silent Emergent, Doubly Dark” by Richard Thieme opens with a quote from James Joyce, whom I consider to be a primogenitor of slipstream. Thieme, fortunately, doesn’t try to match Joyce for wordplay and instead gives us a calm, flat look into the psyche of an alien being. Thieme explores various levels of reality through his protagonist, moving farther and farther away from the seen, into unglimpsed realms. The story itself, like Joyce, is a bit difficult, but Thieme’s beautiful descriptions and intriguing concepts keep things interesting. This is a piece that truly deserves the slipstream label.